Professor Shoeshine Has Nothing To Do With Personal Interest And Dignity.

In the eyes of ordinary people, it is often unsuccessful: the director of Design Department of Yangzhou University art school, Associate Research Fellow of Yangzhou University's Buddhist Research Institute, and senior visiting scholar of Tsinghua University Academy of Fine Arts.

As a famous sculptor, he has a house, a car and a comfortable life.

However, it is not like rich people at all. In 2002, he spent 100 yuan to hire a tricycle for thirty yuan. He took a day's rickshaw driver to search for "truth and dignity". Now, he often carries his shoe box and goes to the streets to shine shoes for people.

He felt that in front of a pair of dusty leather shoes, he found a pure pleasure, found the true meaning of life, and found himself as a living "human" dignity.

(Yangzhou evening news December 26th)

In a pluralistic society, everyone has the power and freedom to choose or pursue various ways of life. From this point of view, the professor peddling three rounds of shoes on the street and rubbing leather shoes is just like the characters we often see on the stage. At best, they can only make the people realize some interest or pleasure from them, and let the visitors feel a little novelty, that's all.

If this can make the professor "find the dignity of being human", I am afraid it is exaggerated.

In reality, people on the streets are not uncommon in shoaling three wheel shoes. Among them, laid-off workers are there, migrant workers have more, and more are urban low income groups.

In order to survive, to earn their living, they smell chicken and dance, wind and sleep, which is very difficult for outsiders to feel.

To speak of dignity, there is no doubt that no matter whether a professor or a beggar, everyone's personality should be without distinction. But what is the actual situation?

It is true that no one does not want to live in dignity, but the only thing he can lay down to a certain group, or a person who pedals his shoes, is nothing but greedy and extravagant materialization. I am afraid there is only one "face" that can not be taken care of at the moment, and can not be driven away by people like a fly by dog or a dog. Even if he is faced with a pair of white eyes, he may feel a little happiness or satisfaction.

Can people who live in such a situation, like those professors who have houses and cars, talk luxurious about their dignity?

Professor Chang Sheng Sheng earned 70 yuan a day by selling hard work. He rewarded himself with a bowl of beef noodle in the street restaurant. It was said that the beef noodle noodle gave him a very deep sense of happiness and made him immediately realize the true meaning of happiness.

Simply go for three rounds every day, so will not every day be happy and always happy?

A real shoeshine, in front of a pair of dusty leather shoes, I believe what he can think of is that he can earn more money by rubbing together a pair of shoes. It is probably the common wish of most of them to get rich as soon as possible and get away from the shoe booth to do some other "decent" jobs.

To say that they can find a kind of "pure pleasure" in front of dusty leather shoes, and find the dignity of being human, this joke is too romantic and too outdated.

No matter how pedaling cars, shoes or others, and no matter how subjective motives are, objectively speaking, they are holding a "playing ticket" mentality, so it is understandable that they can get some pleasure from it or feel it.

All this involves at most personal interest rather than dignity.